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Attributed quotes — Pablo Picasso

1881–1973 France

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13 quotes

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Attributed Tomás R. Villasante (1994)

I don't know where he [ Marc Chagall ] gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.

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For a long time I limited myself to one colour — as a form of discipline.

Attributed Picasso on Art (1988)

People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Attributed Picasso on Art (1988)

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.

Attributed Ingo F. Walther (1996)

"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

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I do not see why so much importance should be attached to the idea of 'research' in painting.

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Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.

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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.

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For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.

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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it becomes something else.

Attributed Ann Livermore (1988)

Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pablo Picasso (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.